Home Page of Ted L. Johnson III

This picture was taken in April 1964 shortly after I invented Punk. I'm the one with the adorable snarl. To my left is my nurturing sister, Jolene.

Don't like the ugly colors? Reload and get different ugly colors.

A List of My Links

• Phone :
  USA: +1 202‑277‑3853 (Signal & WhatsApp)
  MG: +261 (0)33‑05‑392‑80
  Current time in Madagascar: 4:02 AM (Please call me during business hours here.)
• Email : info@tedjohnson.us
• My LinkedIn Profile
• My Portfolio
  The so-called "modern" site with samples of my work.
• E4G LLC
  My consulting company.
• My Blog
  Started in 2004 to make my late dog famous. Updated occasionally.
  Latest posts:
  • Bob & Ted’s Prop Adventure
  • I Know His Type — I Worked for “Swiss Army Bob” (Sketch)
  • Certified Rotten Potato – My “Jabberwocky” Souvenir (Sketch)

Hand-Coded Since 1994

You're looking at the decidedly unimpressive first web page I ever made.

This looks more or less exactly like it did in 1994, but the code has evolved many times and has been upgraded and validated to modern web standards.^[1] I'm kind of sentimental about the "Hello World" look of the early WWW.^[2]

More From My Web Museum

• PEOPLink Simulation
  My first web job. We created the world's first nonprofit e-commerce website. It's defunct now, but this is what it looked like when I was in command.
• Cowboy in Africa
  I wanted a web sandbox, so I registered the domain cowboyinafrica.com. (There's a story). Now I'm stuck with it. It's a useful utility that I use all the time.
• The Virtual Souk
  In 1997 I went to Morocco to prove that a small Moroccan NGO could learn to code HTML and represent themselves online.
• Doctor Moses N. Fokong: Cameroonian Musical Pioneer
  A tribute to my late friend. Includes biographical information gathered during my 1997 trip to Cameroon.
• Bali-Nyonga
  My favorite African village (where I lived and worked as Peace Corps Volunteer).
• My Portal-Lookin' Resume
  My original online resume was also an homage to Yahoo!

Thanks for stopping by! (In a more civilized time all websites used to say that.)

1. ^Upgraded in stages from HTML 2.0, to 3.0, to 4.0, to HTML5; implemented PHP features. (Details for Nerds)
   • Annoying pop-ups and Easter eggs have come and gone.
   • Switched from static HTML to PHP.
   • Updated depreciated spellings: Such as "Web site" to "website." They were originally two words, and "Web" was always capitalized because "World Wide Web" is a proper noun. AP Stylebook eventually surrendered and accepted the common spellings, and so did I. But I still have to catch myself every single time wanting to use the original spellings.
   • Eliminated the old two-column HTML "TABLE" layout and replaced it with a responsive two-column "DIV" layout – killing off the last remnant of the HTML template I started with in 1994.
   • Added compression – because a 68 KB page (including images) can't load fast enough!
   • Moved all internal styles to an external stylesheet – kind of ridiculous for a one-page site.
   • Converted images to WebP format for no good reason.
   • Implemented picture elements so that older browsers will see the JPEG versions of the images. Tested on an ancient version of MS Internet Explorer.
   • Implemented a selection of ugly background colors that change randomly on reload.
   • Implemented another Easter Egg.
   • Made this sub-list collapsed by default, toggles open for nerds.
   • Implemented another Easter Egg.
   • Implemented display of Madagascar time using JavaScript with PHP fallback.
   • Implemented "Latest Blog Post" link automation.
   • Implemented a custom 404 Error. Try it.
   • Fixed a bunch of nitpicky HTML validation complaints identified by the Nu Html Checker
   • Added special JavaScript behavior to links (as though anyone ever clicks the links on this page)
   • Replaced Footnote sublist reveal/hide behavior based on CSS instead of JavaScript.
   • For accessibility, I made the "colored-heading" style always complimentary and in contrast to the background color - but never black or white.
   • Made all of the <H2> tags colored, because what the hell, why not.
   • Added 2 more "Latests Posts" to the blog section, and added some fancy <article> tags for SEO, plus an itemprop="headline" attribute to each link, because ChatGPT suggested it. Added a script to update the RSS for half-heartedfanatic.com if I am too neurotic to wait for the cron job. Added a script to update the one-page sitemap. Ditto. Added a Backup script.
   • Added Google Analytics.
   • Added info about WhatsApp and Signal
2. ^This page design is based on a template provided by my original dial-up internet access provider, Primenet (now defunct) included with their dial-up plans (the only kind of internet access they offered) an email address and a little bit of webspace. My first-ever website – which looked exactly like this one – was at http://primenet.com/~tlj3 (archived from the original on December 26, 1996).